Top Secret Magic - Packet Card Tricks

Bring Me The Head of a Packet Trick - Mark Elsdon

After "bumping" into Mark again after several years... I sat through his outstanding lecture. This packet trick although requiring a small amount of work is an absolute killer. So I took the few he had with him to offer to you. You want an new killer effect for your pocket her it is!

Building on the work of Hamman, Harris, Racherbaumer, Close and others, Mark Elsdon has developed the most commercial handling of "Re-Set" released to date.

Four red backed cards change places with four blue backed cards one at a time, and then instantly "Re-Set" back to being reds. The Blue cards are examined and are now found to have Green Backs and when the red packet is checked again the blacks have vanished leaving four blank backed cards! All eight cards may now be examined!!

If you enjoy performing magic that simply devastates laymen, then you really should be performing this routine.
Complete with all the cards and an instructional DVD.

Price: £15

Bruce Cervon's Dirty Deal

Originally sold here in the UK by Ken Brooke. So you know this is a great trick. One of my constant favorite over the years.

Five cards are shown, four are of like value, the fifth different- a poker hand. These cards are counted showing all blue backs. One card is placed on the table face down. A red backed card is removed from the wallet and placed on top, now all the cards change to red backs. one is placed on the table next to the first and a multi-colored back is removed from the wallet and placed on top of the packet. All of the cards change to multi-colored backs. One is removed and placed next to the other two on the table and a third patterned back card is removed from the wallet and added to the packet, all of the cards change once again to match this third patterned back. One of these cards is placed on the table where four different colored backed cards are seen. Turning the cards over that remain in his hand, the performer lays them out on the table and each is a completely different color and design back altogether. Each of the nine cards on the table have a different back.

Highly recomended. (If you can track down a copy of Ken Brookes origianl routine there are some nice extra touches well worth adding!) - M

Price: £10

Painted Packet - Ton Onosaka

Ton Onosaka's update version of the "Mexican Monte".

The magician brings out a red deck of cards and announces that he wants to play a game of observation with a few cards. Taking a few cards from the deck, a court card and 2 spot cards are displayed. Squaring the packet the court card turns face down. The a face up spot card transforms into the court card.

You explain how it was done...dealing a duplicate court card onto the table! But again you make the court card change places with the spot card...then turn back face up...then you demonstrate that the cards have changed to blue cards and don't match the rest of the deck!

But actually they aren't blue at all...they don't even match each other...turning them over to show a red, green and yellow backed card...and the duplicate you dealt down earlier has a paint can design on the back...that is where all the colours came from! You throw the 4 down on the table where the audience can examine them!

Requires a red backed deck of bicycle cards, instructions by Phil Goldstein.

Price: £10

Maxi Twisto - Nick Trost

This is fast proving to be one the most popular quick packet tricks of the year, in effect, the performer shows four Aces. The Ace of Spades, the master Ace, is openly turned face down. Now, one by one, after the packet is “twisted,” the other three Aces turn face down. Explaning that you cheat and used five cards, when the cards are dealt face up, there are now five cards, a Royal Flush!

Price: £8

4 Flush! - Nick Trost

Another Classic effect from the ingenious Nick Trost

A “Wild Card” effect with six cards! You show five blank-faced cards and one Four of Spades. The Four is brushed against two of the blank cards and they change to Fours! This is repeated with the other blank cards and at the finish, all six cards have changed to the Four of Spades—a Four Flush!

No double-faced cards are used, yet spectators seem to see the face and back of every card!

Price: £8

The Legend of the Were-Wolf - Mal Norton (UK Exlusive)

Wolf NEW! 100% ORIGINAL ! Hot off the press !!!
A fabulous new packet trick. One by one four Men turn into Were-Wolves ! Then with the aid of a Silver Bullet, three of them are killed and revert to their original forms. Finally by the light of day the very last Were-Wolf changes back into a Man so that come next Full Moon he can perpetuate the Legend of the Were-Wolf. Great logical storyline. Laminated cards to last a life time. Easy to do with VERY comprehensive instructions and photographs… And as if that wasn't enough when you finish it is already reset, perfect for table hopping.

Price: £10

Arachnophobia - The spider bites back - Malcolm Norton "M" & Matt hall "M" Junior

Be Afraid be very afraid….

Asking a young lady to help, you show her five cards. Four cards depicting mirrors and one a spider, you weave a story around a spider that leaves cobwebs on all of the mirrors, then just disappears. Sure enough the mirrors suddenly become covered in cobwebs and the spider has vanished from his card… You ask the young lady to help make the spider reappear by waving her hand over the cards. Wait for the scream… Trust me there will be one. For there on the back of her hand is the spider. This is the ultimate reaction trick ! Laminated to last a lifetime. Included is a bonus routine for those that feel giving their audience a heart attack maybe going too far for the sake of entertainment… Based on "The Web" by Jim Pace.

Price: £10

CD Poker - Vernet Magic

The performer explains that he has a new computer program that allows him to win every time in poker without even using a computer. The performer then shows a CD that has ten face cards printed on one side, and card backs on the other. The performer hands a spectator five paper clips and the CD explaining that the spectator will pick out the performer's hand by clipping any five facedown cards and the remaining cards will be the spectator's hand. The performer then asks the spectator to turn the CD face up showing the five clipped cards to be the winning hand!!

Price: £8

Ultra Monte - Daryl

Find the lady...actually the Ace of Spades. No matter how slowly and fairly it is displayed with the two red aces, the Ace of Spades repeatedly vanishes and reappears in the most unlikely places! Specially printed on Bicycle cards by the U.S. Playing Card Company.

Easy to do and instantly reset. Truly amazing!

Price: £12 w/DVD

18+ (Cocktail Cards) - Chris Wardle

The 18+ in the title could represent the legal age at which you could drink at a bar, and legitimately watch the routines in this outfit! Or it could be the number of drink cards you get in this outfit, or the number of routines detailed for you in this manuscript of routines. You take your pick! Magic 'at the bar', or for a partying adult audience, gives you an excellent performing platform. You have an audience with the time and inclination to watch, observation skills that are not at their peak, and where a little entertainment goes a long way. You have an audience that is ripe for the type of effects this outfit offers, - all revolving around tipsy themes, with no exceptional skill or sleights.

Most of the effects are completely self-working, just follow the instructions. Others require a small amount of manipulation, well within the reach of the most modest close up performer. These effects could just as easily be performed at a restaurant table, at a hotel, garden party or private function - anywhere close-up magic and drinks may combine! We supply you 18 "drink" cards, (in an attractive wallet), and a 24 page book of routines to perform with these cards. There are some 18 routines, plus variations. Pick up the cards, follow the instructions, and we guarantee you some great entertainment at your next party, restaurant or pub session!

Price: £8

From a packet of 12 cards the Magician deals 6 cards to the spectator and keeps 6 for themself. Both the Spectator and the Magician place their cards behind their backs, mix them up and remove one card. Keeping it face down so even they don't know which card they have chosen, the Magician and spectator exchange cards and place them face up within the packet of cards behind their backs. When the two packets are brought forward and fanned out it is seen that both the face up "chosen" cards are identical… The spectators start to believe that maybe all the cards are the same!!! "Well, all of these other cards may be the same…" you say "but…" You turn over all the other cards to reveal that all the cards are all the same but a totally different card!

Price: £5

Ultimate 3 Card Monte Michael Skinner

Michael Skinner's vast working repertoire, larger perhaps than any other magician in history, contained some of the most difficult sleight-of-hand tricks imaginable. Yet, one of his pet tricks, a feature of his close-up act at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas where he performed for two decades, is this self-working miracle—the Ultimate 3 Card Monte. Don’t be fooled by the fact that it almost works by itself, though. Michael Skinner fried audiences with this routine and after he released the secret, the Ultimate 3 Card Monte found itself into the working repertoires of professional close-up magicians all over the world. And now—it can be yours! Everything (except a bit of practice) is included in the package —professionally illustrated instructions, original patter, and the specially printed Bicycle-brand cards that make this miracle possible. The Ultimate 3 Card Monte—it’s the stuff of legends.

Any one of the four suits is freely named by a spectator (no magician's choice, force, leading, or linguistic deception of any kind). Upon removing four cards from a wallet the card which matches the spectator's chosen suit is the only one face down! What's more, the three face-up cards are Aces and the spectator's selection is turned over to reveal it is a King!

Comes complete with all the necessary, specially-printed Bicycle cards, wallet, and detailed, fully-illustrated 12-page instruction booklet.

An extremely efficient, practical, easy and stunning approach to the classic "Cards Across" plot for close-up or stage conditions. The effect: Four red-backed cards are displayed; they're counted and held by a spectator. A set of blue-backed cards is shown, and a second spectator simply thinks of any one. The packets are held by the spectators, who stand far apart from each other. With the utmost fairness, the mentally chosen card vanishes from the blue packet and appears in the red! Includes detailed, 16-page booklet written by Phil Goldstein and fully-illustrated by Tony Dunn and the seven specially-printed cards on Bicycle stock that make this effect possible.

If you have to ask what the name stands for then you haven't seen it done
Four Jokers magically turn face down one at a time. When they are turned face up, they have turned into the four Aces!!! ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING! Yes you really do see the fronts and backs of each Ace and unmistakably show only four cards at the end. Nothing to ditch or palm off. No complicated slight of hand. Instant reset making prefect for table hopping… This is undoubtedly the trick of the year and only.

Four different coloured alien faces appear and disappear one at a time between pictures of earth and space. Then, with a wave of the hand, the four cards with the aliens change to four "green immigration cards" - then they immediately and magically change into the aliens again this time all four at once! For the finale, all four cards are shown to have changed into photographs of the famous "alien autopsy." Comes complete with full color laminated cards and detailed instructions. Very nice, resets instantly, perfect for table hopping and very entertaining.

With the aid of an "Invisible Die" a spectator chooses one of six cards. The magician reveals his prediction, It does of course match ! This is incredibly clean. No funny spelling business, they throw / choose, a number you count to that card. Very, Very clean. Very simple. Resets instantly and perfect for table hopping with an in the hands routine included. This one is a must so simple but it blows them away every time.

From a fan of three jumbo cards the spectator tries to find the queen from amongst two indifferent cards but is always wrong…. Eventually the Queen disappears all together.

Everyone has heard of the three card Monte or find the lady. This routine is very simple to do, as it is virtually self-working. You show three cards, two Jokers and one Queen. All the spectators have to do is find the Queen. They try and fail time after time, even though the Queen is shown at various times during the routine. Finally you tell them they should never gamble on the Queen because there is never a Queen in the first place. On turning the cards over it is seen that the Queen has now vanished. The front and backs of each card can be displayed freely after the effect is over, a very strong effect and a really entertaining routine.

While demonstrating the "Three Card Monte" The Monte card reverses itself and changes places with the other cards not once but several times. Then the backs change colour one by one ! Great routine, easy to do with a big impact ! Resets itself, perfect for table hopping. Based on Matt Corins Mondo Monte.

Probably the best "Packet Trick" in the world, EVER !
Wow ! It had better be good after that… Following an entertaining patter story about the "Three Card Monte", you show three cards (Sorry that was rather obvious wasn't it). Two have a red diamond printed on them and the third has a blue diamond on it. First you try to find the 'blue' card but they've all turned red, next they all turn blue then back to red again. Finally in desperation you turn over the cards on at a time… One red, one blue, now if you can tell me what the last one is… POW ! The punch finish that'll knock em dead. I'll not give it away but it's a killer. Not self working but not difficult to learn. Made in Bicycle Cards, with carry case. You WILL use this, today, tomorrow and the rest of your life…
Unreservedly recommended.

Possibly one of my favorite storyline card tricks. Peter Kane's Variation of his own "Wild Card" card effect using old fashioned style cards and a great story line about a "Gypsy's Curse". Seven ancient playing cards are shown to be six black spot cards and one King of Diamonds. you tell the story of a propietor of a game of chance at an old traveling fair who divides the seven cards into two groups and asks the spectators to wager as to which group contains the Diamond. An elderly Gypsy woman having wagered and lost, placed a curse upon the man and his game. When next he attempts to operate his game it is found that all the cards are winners! The cards are fanned to show all the faces are Diamond Kings and all the backs are normal. Beautifully clean finish. Will fool the knowledgeable ones. Now remade in slightly smaller cards making them easier to handle and in a laminated style finish to last longer. Not self working, requires a couple of easy slights But you'll have something different and entertaining. HIghly recomended

Two packets of four face down cards are shown and counted, one with red backs and one with blue backs. Two spectators are asked to chose a packet each and THINK of two different queens (NO FORCE). The performer states without touching the cards he will make the two thought of cards turn over in their packets and then change places !!! Sure enough he spreads the two packets and FACE UP one in each packet are the two thought of cards. He removes them and turns them over, they really have changes places, for the face up card in the blue packet has a red back and vice versa. The performer then shows that inexplicably the spectators chose the only cards that would work because when they are turned over all the other cards are JOKERS ! No extra cards. No sleight of hand. (A 2nd routine enclosed requires minimal sleights).

Acclaimed as the best trick of its type. And so easy to do. And one of my top best sellers!

These cards are 9" x 6" and can be seen in the largest halls yet still small enough to use close up!

You show and envelope which contains 4 large cards. A spectators freely chooses anyone of the 4 Kings, Clubs, Hearts, Spades or Diamonds... When you remove the cards form the envelope and Spread them ONE card is face up! It is the choosen King. Just to prove it wasn't sleight of hand you turn it over to show it has a different colored back

Top Secret Magic. 34 Western Approach, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 1TQ England. UK. Tel: 01752 667401

		Cards Packet Tricks
	Bring Me The Head of a Packet Trick - Mark Elsdon After "bumping" into Mark again after several years... I sat through his outstanding lecture. This packet trick although requiring a small amount of work is an absolute killer. So I took the few he had with him to offer to you. You want an new killer effect for your pocket her it is! Building on the work of Hamman, Harris, Racherbaumer, Close and others, Mark Elsdon has developed the most commercial handling of "Re-Set" released to date. Four red backed cards change places with four blue backed cards one at a time, and then instantly "Re-Set" back to being reds. The Blue cards are examined and are now found to have Green Backs and when the red packet is checked again the blacks have vanished leaving four blank backed cards! All eight cards may now be examined!! If you enjoy performing magic that simply devastates laymen, then you really should be performing this routine. Complete with all the cards and an instructional DVD. Price: £15 Bruce Cervon's Dirty Deal Originally sold here in the UK by Ken Brooke. So you know this is a great trick. One of my constant favorite over the years. Five cards are shown, four are of like value, the fifth different- a poker hand. These cards are counted showing all blue backs. One card is placed on the table face down. A red backed card is removed from the wallet and placed on top, now all the cards change to red backs. one is placed on the table next to the first and a multi-colored back is removed from the wallet and placed on top of the packet. All of the cards change to multi-colored backs. One is removed and placed next to the other two on the table and a third patterned back card is removed from the wallet and added to the packet, all of the cards change once again to match this third patterned back. One of these cards is placed on the table where four different colored backed cards are seen. Turning the cards over that remain in his hand, the performer lays them out on the table and each is a completely different color and design back altogether. Each of the nine cards on the table have a different back. Highly recomended. (If you can track down a copy of Ken Brookes origianl routine there are some nice extra touches well worth adding!) - M Price: £10 Painted Packet - Ton Onosaka Ton Onosaka's update version of the "Mexican Monte". The magician brings out a red deck of cards and announces that he wants to play a game of observation with a few cards. Taking a few cards from the deck, a court card and 2 spot cards are displayed. Squaring the packet the court card turns face down. The a face up spot card transforms into the court card. You explain how it was done...dealing a duplicate court card onto the table! But again you make the court card change places with the spot card...then turn back face up...then you demonstrate that the cards have changed to blue cards and don't match the rest of the deck! But actually they aren't blue at all...they don't even match each other...turning them over to show a red, green and yellow backed card...and the duplicate you dealt down earlier has a paint can design on the back...that is where all the colours came from! You throw the 4 down on the table where the audience can examine them! Requires a red backed deck of bicycle cards, instructions by Phil Goldstein. Price: £10 Maxi Twisto - Nick Trost This is fast proving to be one the most popular quick packet tricks of the year, in effect, the performer shows four Aces. The Ace of Spades, the master Ace, is openly turned face down. Now, one by one, after the packet is “twisted,” the other three Aces turn face down. Explaning that you cheat and used five cards, when the cards are dealt face up, there are now five cards, a Royal Flush! Price: £8 4 Flush! - Nick Trost Another Classic effect from the ingenious Nick Trost A “Wild Card” effect with six cards! You show five blank-faced cards and one Four of Spades. The Four is brushed against two of the blank cards and they change to Fours! This is repeated with the other blank cards and at the finish, all six cards have changed to the Four of Spades—a Four Flush! No double-faced cards are used, yet spectators seem to see the face and back of every card! Price: £8 The Legend of the Were-Wolf - Mal Norton (UK Exlusive) NEW! 100% ORIGINAL ! Hot off the press !!! A fabulous new packet trick. One by one four Men turn into Were-Wolves ! Then with the aid of a Silver Bullet, three of them are killed and revert to their original forms. Finally by the light of day the very last Were-Wolf changes back into a Man so that come next Full Moon he can perpetuate the Legend of the Were-Wolf. Great logical storyline. Laminated cards to last a life time. Easy to do with VERY comprehensive instructions and photographs… And as if that wasn't enough when you finish it is already reset, perfect for table hopping. Price: £10 Sorry temporarily out of stock - email me if you'd like this trick Arachnophobia - The spider bites back - Malcolm Norton "M" & Matt hall "M" Junior Be Afraid be very afraid…. Asking a young lady to help, you show her five cards. Four cards depicting mirrors and one a spider, you weave a story around a spider that leaves cobwebs on all of the mirrors, then just disappears. Sure enough the mirrors suddenly become covered in cobwebs and the spider has vanished from his card… You ask the young lady to help make the spider reappear by waving her hand over the cards. Wait for the scream… Trust me there will be one. For there on the back of her hand is the spider. This is the ultimate reaction trick ! Laminated to last a lifetime. Included is a bonus routine for those that feel giving their audience a heart attack maybe going too far for the sake of entertainment… Based on "The Web" by Jim Pace. Price: £10 Sorry temporarily out of stock (email me) CD Poker - Vernet Magic The performer explains that he has a new computer program that allows him to win every time in poker without even using a computer. The performer then shows a CD that has ten face cards printed on one side, and card backs on the other. The performer hands a spectator five paper clips and the CD explaining that the spectator will pick out the performer's hand by clipping any five facedown cards and the remaining cards will be the spectator's hand. The performer then asks the spectator to turn the CD face up showing the five clipped cards to be the winning hand!! Price: £8 Ultra Monte - Daryl Find the lady...actually the Ace of Spades. No matter how slowly and fairly it is displayed with the two red aces, the Ace of Spades repeatedly vanishes and reappears in the most unlikely places! Specially printed on Bicycle cards by the U.S. Playing Card Company. Easy to do and instantly reset. Truly amazing! Price: £12 w/DVD 18+ (Cocktail Cards) - Chris Wardle The 18+ in the title could represent the legal age at which you could drink at a bar, and legitimately watch the routines in this outfit! Or it could be the number of drink cards you get in this outfit, or the number of routines detailed for you in this manuscript of routines. You take your pick! Magic 'at the bar', or for a partying adult audience, gives you an excellent performing platform. You have an audience with the time and inclination to watch, observation skills that are not at their peak, and where a little entertainment goes a long way. You have an audience that is ripe for the type of effects this outfit offers, - all revolving around tipsy themes, with no exceptional skill or sleights. Most of the effects are completely self-working, just follow the instructions. Others require a small amount of manipulation, well within the reach of the most modest close up performer. These effects could just as easily be performed at a restaurant table, at a hotel, garden party or private function - anywhere close-up magic and drinks may combine! We supply you 18 "drink" cards, (in an attractive wallet), and a 24 page book of routines to perform with these cards. There are some 18 routines, plus variations. Pick up the cards, follow the instructions, and we guarantee you some great entertainment at your next party, restaurant or pub session! Price: £8 U2 From a packet of 12 cards the Magician deals 6 cards to the spectator and keeps 6 for themself. Both the Spectator and the Magician place their cards behind their backs, mix them up and remove one card. Keeping it face down so even they don't know which card they have chosen, the Magician and spectator exchange cards and place them face up within the packet of cards behind their backs. When the two packets are brought forward and fanned out it is seen that both the face up "chosen" cards are identical… The spectators start to believe that maybe all the cards are the same!!! "Well, all of these other cards may be the same…" you say "but…" You turn over all the other cards to reveal that all the cards are all the same but a totally different card! Price: £5 Ultimate 3 Card Monte Michael Skinner Michael Skinner's vast working repertoire, larger perhaps than any other magician in history, contained some of the most difficult sleight-of-hand tricks imaginable. Yet, one of his pet tricks, a feature of his close-up act at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas where he performed for two decades, is this self-working miracle—the Ultimate 3 Card Monte. Don’t be fooled by the fact that it almost works by itself, though. Michael Skinner fried audiences with this routine and after he released the secret, the Ultimate 3 Card Monte found itself into the working repertoires of professional close-up magicians all over the world. And now—it can be yours! Everything (except a bit of practice) is included in the package —professionally illustrated instructions, original patter, and the specially printed Bicycle-brand cards that make this miracle possible. The Ultimate 3 Card Monte—it’s the stuff of legends. Price: £11 Mind Surf - Dan Harlan Any one of the four suits is freely named by a spectator (no magician's choice, force, leading, or linguistic deception of any kind). Upon removing four cards from a wallet the card which matches the spectator's chosen suit is the only one face down! What's more, the three face-up cards are Aces and the spectator's selection is turned over to reveal it is a King! Comes complete with all the necessary, specially-printed Bicycle cards, wallet, and detailed, fully-illustrated 12-page instruction booklet. Price: £10 Shinkansen - Phil Goldstein Once in a while a card trick comes along that I really like... This is one of them... Not only that it stunned my wife! Now that puts it in the miracle class! An extremely efficient, practical, easy and stunning approach to the classic "Cards Across" plot for close-up or stage conditions. The effect: Four red-backed cards are displayed; they're counted and held by a spectator. A set of blue-backed cards is shown, and a second spectator simply thinks of any one. The packets are held by the spectators, who stand far apart from each other. With the utmost fairness, the mentally chosen card vanishes from the blue packet and appears in the red! Includes detailed, 16-page booklet written by Phil Goldstein and fully-illustrated by Tony Dunn and the seven specially-printed cards on Bicycle stock that make this effect possible. Price: £12 N F W! Gary Freed If you have to ask what the name stands for then you haven't seen it done Four Jokers magically turn face down one at a time. When they are turned face up, they have turned into the four Aces!!! ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING! Yes you really do see the fronts and backs of each Ace and unmistakably show only four cards at the end. Nothing to ditch or palm off. No complicated slight of hand. Instant reset making prefect for table hopping… This is undoubtedly the trick of the year and only. Price: £12 Sorry Temporarily out of stock Alien Autopsy - Jim Pace & Steve Dobson Four different coloured alien faces appear and disappear one at a time between pictures of earth and space. Then, with a wave of the hand, the four cards with the aliens change to four "green immigration cards" - then they immediately and magically change into the aliens again this time all four at once! For the finale, all four cards are shown to have changed into photographs of the famous "alien autopsy." Comes complete with full color laminated cards and detailed instructions. Very nice, resets instantly, perfect for table hopping and very entertaining. Price: £10 Predict"DIE"ble With the aid of an "Invisible Die" a spectator chooses one of six cards. The magician reveals his prediction, It does of course match ! This is incredibly clean. No funny spelling business, they throw / choose, a number you count to that card. Very, Very clean. Very simple. Resets instantly and perfect for table hopping with an in the hands routine included. This one is a must so simple but it blows them away every time. Price: £6 The Lightning Queen From a fan of three jumbo cards the spectator tries to find the queen from amongst two indifferent cards but is always wrong…. Eventually the Queen disappears all together. Price: £10 Simplex Monte Everyone has heard of the three card Monte or find the lady. This routine is very simple to do, as it is virtually self-working. You show three cards, two Jokers and one Queen. All the spectators have to do is find the Queen. They try and fail time after time, even though the Queen is shown at various times during the routine. Finally you tell them they should never gamble on the Queen because there is never a Queen in the first place. On turning the cards over it is seen that the Queen has now vanished. The front and backs of each card can be displayed freely after the effect is over, a very strong effect and a really entertaining routine. Price: £6 Colour Change Monte While demonstrating the "Three Card Monte" The Monte card reverses itself and changes places with the other cards not once but several times. Then the backs change colour one by one ! Great routine, easy to do with a big impact ! Resets itself, perfect for table hopping. Based on Matt Corins Mondo Monte. Price: £6 Color Monte - Jim Temple Probably the best "Packet Trick" in the world, EVER ! Wow ! It had better be good after that… Following an entertaining patter story about the "Three Card Monte", you show three cards (Sorry that was rather obvious wasn't it). Two have a red diamond printed on them and the third has a blue diamond on it. First you try to find the 'blue' card but they've all turned red, next they all turn blue then back to red again. Finally in desperation you turn over the cards on at a time… One red, one blue, now if you can tell me what the last one is… POW ! The punch finish that'll knock em dead. I'll not give it away but it's a killer. Not self working but not difficult to learn. Made in Bicycle Cards, with carry case. You WILL use this, today, tomorrow and the rest of your life… Unreservedly recommended. Price: £7 Gipsy's Curse (Hungarian Guessing game) Peter Kane Possibly one of my favorite storyline card tricks. Peter Kane's Variation of his own "Wild Card" card effect using old fashioned style cards and a great story line about a "Gypsy's Curse". Seven ancient playing cards are shown to be six black spot cards and one King of Diamonds. you tell the story of a propietor of a game of chance at an old traveling fair who divides the seven cards into two groups and asks the spectators to wager as to which group contains the Diamond. An elderly Gypsy woman having wagered and lost, placed a curse upon the man and his game. When next he attempts to operate his game it is found that all the cards are winners! The cards are fanned to show all the faces are Diamond Kings and all the backs are normal. Beautifully clean finish. Will fool the knowledgeable ones. Now remade in slightly smaller cards making them easier to handle and in a laminated style finish to last longer. Not self working, requires a couple of easy slights But you'll have something different and entertaining. HIghly recomended Price: £10 Sorry temporarily out of stock Twisted Sisters Two packets of four face down cards are shown and counted, one with red backs and one with blue backs. Two spectators are asked to chose a packet each and THINK of two different queens (NO FORCE). The performer states without touching the cards he will make the two thought of cards turn over in their packets and then change places !!! Sure enough he spreads the two packets and FACE UP one in each packet are the two thought of cards. He removes them and turns them over, they really have changes places, for the face up card in the blue packet has a red back and vice versa. The performer then shows that inexplicably the spectators chose the only cards that would work because when they are turned over all the other cards are JOKERS ! No extra cards. No sleight of hand. (A 2nd routine enclosed requires minimal sleights). Acclaimed as the best trick of its type. And so easy to do. And one of my top best sellers! Price: £12 Predict the Kings - Giant size plastic cards These cards are 9" x 6" and can be seen in the largest halls yet still small enough to use close up! You show and envelope which contains 4 large cards. A spectators freely chooses anyone of the 4 Kings, Clubs, Hearts, Spades or Diamonds... When you remove the cards form the envelope and Spread them ONE card is face up! It is the choosen King. Just to prove it wasn't sleight of hand you turn it over to show it has a different colored back Price: £12 Can't see what you are looking for then drop us a line A-Z / Accessories / Audio Books and Digital Magazines / Autographs / Beginners / Books / Cards - Packet tricks / Children's / Close-up / Coins / Escapology / Fantasio / General Magic / Lockpicks / Jerry O'Connell / Joe Porper / Juggling /Mental / Norm Nielsen / Silks / Sponge Balls / Stage-Cabaret / DVD's Questions or Queries ? Contact "M" at HQ Main Page Top Secret Magic. 34 Western Approach, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 1TQ England. UK. Tel: 01752 667401 E&OE